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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="42">Taxon classification Animalia Scorpiones Chaerilidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/569B23FC-86FB-4E16-8487-047B100BF9DC" class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="1" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pseudoconchiformus">Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus</taxonomicName>
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Figs 1-4, 525, 26-35, Tables 1, 2
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="42">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="42">Holotype, male, China: Xizang, Nyingchi County (Linzhi County), VIII/2014, Zhiyong Di and Tao Li leg. (Ar.-USTC-XZLZ1401); paratypes: 1 adult male, 9 adult females, same data as holotype (Ar.-USTC-XZLZ140211) (kept in USTC).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="42">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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The new species differs from its congeners by the following features: approximately 3040 mm in total length (Table 2); carapace with the anterior margin straight; chela with length/width ratio: average of 3.3 in males, and 2.5 in females (Table 2); eight or nine (usually eight) rows of denticles on fixed and movable fingers of pedipalp chelae; five pectinal teeth in males and three or four in females.
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pseudoconchiformus
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sp. n. can be distinguished from the geographically and morphologically closely related species (Tables 2-3, and key). Morphologically closest are
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and
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. Both these species have similar body lengths, as well as similar numbers of denticle rows on fixed and movable fingers of the pedipalp chelae. They can be distinguished by the length/width ratio of the pedipalp chela: manus of pedipalp in male narrow and long, chela length/width ratio in male higher than 3 (average of 3.3 in two males, and 2.5 in nine females) in
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sp. n.; manus of pedipalp in male robust (
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2012
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: Fig. 68), chela length/width ratio in both sex adults lower than 2.6 in
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(
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, 2012: 2); manus of pedipalp in both sex adults robust (
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: Figs 3, 17), chela length/width ratio in one male adult is 2.4 (paratype: Ar.
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0102), in two females (including the holotype) lower than 2.0 in
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. Furthermore,
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sp. n. has more slender pedipalps than
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(Table 1;
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2012
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: 13), in other words, the length ratio of pedipalp (LRP) is distinctly larger than the length ratio of total length (LRT) of
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sp. n. and
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: 1.14 (LRP), 1.01 (LRT) in male holotypes; 1.08 (LRP), 0.95 (LRT) in female allotypes of
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sp. n. and
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(Table 1).
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Figures 1-4.
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sp. n., dorsal and ventral habitus: 1-2 Male holotype (Ar.USTCXZLZ1401) 3-4 Female paratype (Ar.USTCXZLZ1402). Scale bar = 10 mm.
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Figures 5-25.
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sp. n. Male holotype: 5 Carapace, dorsal aspect 6 Lateral eyes area 7-8 Chelicera, dorsal and ventral aspects 11 Tegument of the seventh sternite; 12 Sternum, genital operculum and pectines 14-15 Metasomal segment V, lateral and ventral aspects 16 Telson 18-19 Femur, dorsal and external aspects 20-22 Patella, dorsal, external and ventral aspects. Female paratype (Ar.USTCXZLZ1402): 9-10 Chelicera, dorsal and ventral aspects 17 Telson 23-24 Femur, dorsal and external aspects 25 Patella, dorsal aspect. Scale bars = 2 mm.
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Table 1. Measurements (mm) of
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sp. n., male holotype (Ar.-USTC-XZLZ1401) and female paratype (Ar.-USTC-XZLZ1402). The information of
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from
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Kovařík">Kovarik</normalizedToken>
(2012)
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.
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<th colspan="2" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">
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sp. n.
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus wrzecionkoi" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wrzecionkoi">Chaerilus wrzecionkoi</taxonomicName>
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<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">Male holotype</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">Female paratype</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">Male holotype</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">Female paratype</th>
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Table 2. Feature datasets of body length (BL, mm; segment by segment was measured and added in type specimens, while others were measured for overall length only), chela with length/width ratio (CR), number of granule rows of movable finger of pedipalp (RN), and number of pectinal teeth (PT) of
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(CO, Ar.-USTC-XZLZ1412),
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sp. n., and
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(TY, Ar.-USTC-XZBM140102).
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<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">Sex</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">BL</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">CR</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">RN</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">PT</th>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="43">
Table 3. The differences between chaerilids from China:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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sp. n.,
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,
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,
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, and
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; body length (BL, mm); carapace with the anterior margin (straight or curving, CA); chela with length/width ratio respectively in females and males (CR(F), CR(M)), dorsal secondary carinae of the chela (DS); rows number of denticles on fixed and movable fingers of chelae (RF); the tegument of the seventh sternite (SVII); holotype (H), paratype (P), new material (N).
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(H&amp;N)
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus dibangvalleycus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dibangvalleycus">dibangvalleycus</taxonomicName>
(H&amp;P)
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus mainlingensis" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mainlingensis">mainlingensis</taxonomicName>
(H&amp;P)
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus pictus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pictus">pictus</taxonomicName>
(H&amp;P)
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pseudoconchiformus">pseudoconchiformus</taxonomicName>
sp. n. (H&amp;P)
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus wrzecionkoi" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wrzecionkoi">wrzecionkoi</taxonomicName>
(H&amp;P)
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus tessellatus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tessellatus">tessellatus</taxonomicName>
(H&amp;P)
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus tricostatus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tricostatus">tricostatus</taxonomicName>
(N)
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus tryznai" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tryznai">tryznai</taxonomicName>
(H, P&amp;N)
</th>
</tr>
<tr pageId="2" pageNumber="43">
<td colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">*1</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" rowspan="1">*2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="43" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="43">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="43">
The specific name refers to the geographically and morphologically most closely related species
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus conchiformus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="conchiformus">Chaerilus conchiformus</taxonomicName>
, adding the Greek prefix
<normalizedToken originalValue="“pseudo”">&quot;pseudo&quot;</normalizedToken>
as
<normalizedToken originalValue="“pseudoconchiformus”">&quot;pseudoconchiformus&quot;</normalizedToken>
, because the habitus of both sexes is very similar to that of
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus conchiformus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="conchiformus">Chaerilus conchiformus</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="45" pageId="2" pageNumber="43" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="43">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="43">Based on male holotype and female paratype.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="43">Coloration (Figs 1-4). Basically reddish brown. Carapace dark red-brown with black parts and yellowish stripes. Mesosomal tergites dark red-brown with yellowish stripes. Metasoma: all segments dark red-brown. Telson dark red-brown with reddish brown part; aculeus light red-brown. Chelicerae reddish brown with dark reticular pattern on dorsal surface. Pedipalps: femur, patella and chela dark red-brown with dark carinae. Legs dark red-brown and red-brown on distal segments. Sternum, genital operculum and sternites red-brown with some light parts. Pectines light yellow.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="43">Morphology. Carapace carinated, with the anterior margin straight; with dense granules of nearly equal size; lateral furrow moderately deep; large granules form 2 longitudinal lateral carinae (Fig. 5). Median ocular tubercle with granules. Lateral ocular tubercle small with a pair of lateral eyes and some granules (Fig. 6). Lateral eyes distinctly smaller than median eyes (Fig. 5).</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="44">
<pageBreakToken pageId="3" pageNumber="44" start="start">Mesosoma</pageBreakToken>
: Tergites uniform distributing with granules of larger and unequal size; tergites I to II without carinae, each of tergites III to VI bearing a pairs of obsolete granular carinae on posterior margin, tergite VII bearing two pairs of obsolete granular lateral carinae, but middle pair is represented only by ridges without expressed carinae; sternum pentagonal; genital operculum triangular; pectinal teeth count 5/5 in males and 34 in females, with fulcra well developed (Figs 12-13); sternites III to VI are smooth, sternite VII granular without carinae (Fig. 11).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">
<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="45" start="start">Metasoma</pageBreakToken>
: Length about 4.8 times as long as carapace in males and 4.4 in females; segment I always wider than long; segments I to V with 10-8-8-8-7 granular carinae; the ventromedian and ventrolateral carinae of segment V composed of strong, dentated granules, ventromedian carina posteriorly bifurcated as
<normalizedToken originalValue="“Y”">&quot;Y&quot;</normalizedToken>
(Figs 14-15); all segments with sparse small granules. Vesicle is almost smooth; aculeus slightly curved (Figs 16-17).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">Chelicerae: Tibia surfaces smooth; thickly covered with numerous short, silky hairs, extending to ventral aspect of chelicerae and dorsal aspect of fixed fingers; ventral inner edges of movable finger with some minute teeth (23 obsolete teeth in two males and 39 well developed and obsolete teeth in nine females) (Figs 7-10).</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">
Pedipalp: Tegument granular. The femur has four carinae and the patella has five granular carinae (Figs 18-27). Chela with length/width ratio average of 3.3 in males (two adults) and 2.5 in females (nine adults), has seven granulated dorsointernal, except internal carina obsolete; entire tegument of chela manus densely covered with coarse granules, forming some indistinct reticular pattern (Figs 28-33); fingers straight, the cutting edge of movable finger with 8 or 9 (mainly 8) rows of denticles (Figs 34-35). Trichobothriotaxy of type B; orthobothriotaxic (
<bibRefCitation author="Vachon, M" journalOrPublisher="Paris" pageId="6" pageNumber="47" pagination="857 - 958" title="Etude des caracteres utilises pour classer les familles et les genres de Scorpions (Arachnides). 1. La trichobothriotaxie en arachnologie. Sigles trichobothriaux et types de trichobothriotaxie chez les Scorpions." volumeTitle="Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle" year="1974">Vachon 1974</bibRefCitation>
) (Figs 18-33).
</paragraph>
<caption pageId="4" pageNumber="45">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">
Figures 26-35.
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Chaerilidae" genus="Chaerilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus" order="Scorpiones" pageId="4" pageNumber="45" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pseudoconchiformus">Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus</taxonomicName>
sp. n. Male holotype: 28-30 Chela, dorsoexternal, ventral, and internal aspects 34 Movable finger of pedipalp. Female paratype (Ar.USTCXZLZ1402): 26-27 Patella, external and ventral aspects 31-33 Chela, dorsoexternal, ventral, and internal aspects 35 Movable finger of pedipalp. Scale bars = 2 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">Legs: Tibia without tibial spur. Basitarsus with two pedal spurs strongly developed. Tarsi with two rows of spiniform setae.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="45" type="variation">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">Variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">Coloration and morphology in holotype and paratypes are very similar (feature datasets please see Table 2).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="45" type="habitat">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">Habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">Found under the stones in mixed forest.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="45" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="45">China (Xizang).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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